The Five Hotel

17.0

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It’s never easy to let go of a comfortable old idea. We’ve gone on and on in these pages over the years about what a conservative lot Paris’s hotels are. The point was beginning to stretch a bit already, but now, with a steadily increasing number of mold-breaking hotels like the Five, it’s time to retire that old line for good. Because if enough new places like the Five open up, we’ll have to start droning on about how surprising, how whimsical, how visually modern the hotels in Paris always are, and couldn’t someone just put in a Louis XV chair or a crystal chandelier or something, to give us a break from all this slavishly forward-looking design?

We’re not quite to that point yet. Which is a good thing, as it means there’s still good reason to be excited about the Five. It’s still not every day you see a hotel painted in solid vivid colors like this, walls gleaming with the texture of Chinese lacquer, tiny pinhole stars floating up the walls and onto the ceiling. In fact floating décor is something of a specialty; several rooms feature platform-style beds suspended from the ceiling — just watch those hanging wires. All of the rooms, though far from cluttered, come with the basics, like LCD screens and high-speed wireless — and the new “concept suite,” One by the Five, with its private entrance across the road from the hotel, takes things in an even more luxurious direction. As for services, beyond breakfast, you’re on your own, but this being Paris, you know the drill — if you can’t find something to eat around the Latin Quarter then there’s no hope for you.

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55 Guest Reviews

What I liked:

Great decor, great service, friendly stuff, very clean

What the hotel could do better:

room was a bit too small, location is not so convenient

caroline

Stayed June 2008

Rating: Excellent

What I liked:

A very stylish personal approach to this wonderful gem of a hotel. Heaps of thought has been put into this pocket size hotel and even though it is small it has been beautifully put together. It has a great location in Paris and the price of the room is amazing for what you get!

What the hotel could do better:

We were happy with everything and will return

Evan

Stayed May 2008

Rating: Good

What I liked:

Really friendly staff at reception, who called me by name and were clearly service-oriented. The beds were also very comfortable, not always the case in Paris (or Europe generally).

What the hotel could do better:

Given the location (not exactly in the centre on town), the rooms were tiny. I mean really tiny - barely room to put my suitcase down...literally. Was fine for the one night, but certainly not worth going out of your way for.